Made On Earth — Right on Track
Jonathan Jamieson turned common bamboo barbecue skewers into delicate sculptures that gracefully deliver a rolling metal ball bearing down a series of chutes and turns.
Year: 2008
AVR ICSP breadboard adapter
From the MAKE Flickr pool As a first foray into the realm of professional PCB fabrication, Flickr member A.Square designed this 6-pin breadboard adapter for programming AVR chips – I built and have been using an Evil Mad Scientist Labs-style minimalist target board. It works great, but the problem is you more-or-less need a different […]
Made On Earth — Hello Moto
In the hands of Milanese artisan Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi the polished chrome, handlebars, and headlights of the classic Vespa or Lambretta scooters now find new uses in gorgeous halogen lamps.
Made On Earth — Erik and the Submarine
Erik Westerberg has spent more than 2,400 hours, apart from his day job as a freelance mechanic, building his submarine — only the second civil submarine in Sweden.
Hands On — Ponoko
A Long-Tail, Pro-Am, Digital Maker Thing.
Whale Fins Inspire Fan Blades
The Toronto Star writes: WhalePower Corp. of Toronto has spent the past year gathering data on how its new bumpy-edged blade design, which mimics the way tubercle-lined humpback flippers move through water, can improve wind turbines and fans. “What the tubercles do is make the fan quieter, more efficient, and they’re better at pushing down […]
Heirloom Technology — All-Purpose Swahili Bed
In Kenya, the most common and most useful piece of furniture is the rot- and bedbug-resistant Swahili bed.